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If you’ve grown tired of Twitter and it just isn’t what you want anymore, you can delete your Twitter account and move on to new frontiers.

Throughout the web multiple users are reporting this console error message is related to slow downs and hangs within OS X Lion:

kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero

Affected users are often seeing hundreds of these messages in the console logs and they seems to related to the time when hangs and slow downs occur…

Many people are complaining that in Mass Effect under Windows 7 that they can’t see the mouse pointer. The common thread seems to be Windows 7 although most of these users have resurrected the game from Steam.

The only workaround that I could find (that would work for me) is to play in the game in windowed mode…

Wolfram Alpha has all kinds of useful information for everything under the sun, you can even use it to estimate your blood alcohol level after you’ve put away a few drinks. This will only be an estimate, it ignores variations in metabolism, food intake, medication, etc.

If you are playing Collapse! Blast on Facebook or Google+, I can show you a few tips on getting much, much higher scores to help you stay ahead of your friends and neighbors. The premise is to click on the groups of 3 or more same colored blocks to eliminate them before either time runs out or the rows reach the top of the screen.

One of the most beautiful battles in DA2 involves defeating the Ancient Rock Wraith. Overall, it’s actually an easy battle if you know the one key.

The Wraith does a huge draining explosion every few minutes. It is very obvious when it is coming…

This morning I look the time to email the Durham area senators and representatives about this bill.  I will quote what I included in my email here:

I feel strongly that we should not restrict how towns and communities build their internet infrastructure.

I originally grew up in small town in Mississippi…

Here is what Lucus said about it…

Dean Smith asked Alexander Julian to redesign the Tar Heel hoops uniforms prior to the 1991-92 season. At that time, Julian famously described the task as, “Like God calling asking you to make new halos for the archangels.” The famous designer’s changes included the argyle, a bolder trim, and an upgraded fabric…

Well my fellow readers, this will be the last post on this blog (blogs.tech-recipes.com/seamonkey420) for me. I’ve decided that its time to move onto a more professional avatar / moniker and in turn am rebranding myself under the_seamonkey and jimmyselix…

my new blog at tech-recipes:  blogs.tech-recipes.com/jimmyselix

It seems that the latest way for websites and software to make money with their 3rd party advertisers is to give them collected about you. The first place I ran across this was Facebook and the Instant Personalization. This was where Facebook partnered up with some websites to provide us with “great, personalized experiences the moment you arrive.”

Several people have tweeted me to ask me how to install Java in OS X Lion. I would love to help them, but I haven’t had any problems with it.  As soon as OS X realized it needed Java, it downloaded and installed it automatically…

Twitter is a super powerful tool (yes tool) you can use to find people interested in whatever your offering. Learn how to use Twitter to find REAL people who are interested in what your website is about.

Today’s post will be a quick overview of my own personal HTPC setup I run in case any readers ever wondered. I figure it may give a little more substance to my cable tv rants since I’m usually at the forefront of DVR/HTPC technology and trends.

Many people over the years have asked me if certain foods cause or exacerbate acne. I’m not a dermatologist, but I can go to pubmed and do a search. After reading for a while, these are my opinions about the topic.

photo credit: moonshake

Yes, I’m a doctor, but don’t do anything without discussing it with your own personal doctor…

Facebook has recently updated the Page function.  Basically, this new feature should allow you to treat your Facebook Page as a separate account. Once you upgrade, your Page will have a appearance that is similar in structure to your Profile.  Here are some of the features:

Get notifications when fans interact with your page or posts
See activity from the pages you like in your news feed
Like other pages and feature them on your page
Make comments as your page on other pages

Unfortunately, many Facebook Applications that you were able to install directly to a Page no longer work…

Title says it all. So where is Windows Phone 7? We have yet to see any announcements in regards to Microsoft porting WP7 to a more tablet friendly device and yet to see the first update to fix some major (in my opinion) bugs and missing features.

Databases have always been tough for me.  SQL joins are very difficult to process and remember.  Here are a couple of articles that I always reference when trying to re-understand the process of joins:

Visual Explanation of Joins

Visual SQL Joins

The iPad 2 is an inevitable beast. Apple hit a home run with the original iPad, already selling over 8 million units (my estimate of 750k in first week was pretty close, 500k were sold in first week). So what will Apple followup in with the iPad 2? I’ll outline a few things I hope to see after owning the original iPad and a Galaxy Tab.

As the rest of the world starts to wake up to the events in Egypt, I suspect many services will have difficulty handling the load.

The google’s automatic translation that is built into Chrome is really, really slick. However, it seems to be having problems handling the Arabic to English translation duties this morning:

On the evening of January 27, 2011, the government of Egypt stopped the majority of internet traffic going in or out of the country. Eighty million people were suddenly disconnected from the rest of the world. This was in an attempt to prevent the planned protests of the Egyptian people on January 28th to force a change in their government.

This is a visualization of the internet disruption:

Just two days prior to this event, it was reported that the US Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is attempting to pass a bill that would allow the US government to have similar powers to turn off internet access if needed…